US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on June 16 for "Method and apparatus for downstream transmission" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,635, issued on June 16, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for downstream transmission" was invented by Yannick Lefevre (Heverlee, Belgium), Laurens Breyne (Ingelmunster, Belgium) and Michiel Verplaetse (Nazareth, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to perform obtaining a stream of codewords, including a first type codeword and a second type codeword, wherein, the first type codeword is an idle codeword, and the second type codeword includes data intended for at least one of the ONUs; obtaining, an interleaved bitstream from the stream of codewords based ...